Tragedy Strikes Figure Skating Community as World Champions Among Victims in Passenger Jet Collision
Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, 1994 world pairs champions, among those killed in devastating crash.

Among the 60 passengers aboard the passenger jet that collided with a military helicopter included a large number of figure skaters, their coaches, and family members, including a world champion pair from Russia.
Killed in the crash were Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, who won the pairs titles at the 1994 World Figure Skating Championships and competed in the Olympic games twice. They were listed as coaches with the Skating Club of Boston, which had six members on the flight returning from a developmental camp during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships at Wichita, Kansas.
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